China’s Superconducting Quantum Computer Sets Quantum Supremacy Milestone

A Chinese team led by Jian-Wei Pan, often called that country’s Father of Quantum, is reporting that they have achieved another demonstration of quantum supremacy with a superconducting quantum computer, Zuchongzhi. In a study reported in the pre-print server ArXiv, the researchers perform random quantum circuits sampling for benchmarking on the superconducting quantum processor developed by the team. Zuchongzhi is described as a two-dimensional programmable computer composed of 66 functional qubits in a tunable coupling architecture. The sampling was performed for up to a system size of 56 qubits and […]